Pretrial set for doctor accused of prescribing unnecessary narcotics

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) initiated an investigation in June, 2013, after receiving information and complaints from patients that a local physician, Dr. Mohammad Amin, practicing out of Healing Hands Urgent Care in Sylvan Lake, was prescribing controlled substances for non-medical purposes, including Schedule 1, 2, & 3 narcotics. The NET is a multi-jurisdictional drug task force headed by the Sheriff’s Office in partnership with 13 local police departments.

A Bloomfield Township doctor who investigators say was distributing narcotics to people without medical problems is scheduled for pretrial Jan. 9.

Dr. Mohammad Nurul Amin, 59, who is practicing out of Healing Hands Urgent Care in Sylvan Lake, was arraigned Dec. 4 before Oakland County Circuit Judge Michael Warren on three counts, including two counts of delivery/manufacture of narcotics, a potential 7-year felony, and a third count of controlled substance-license prescription violations, a potential 2-year misdemeanor, officials reported.

The case began when the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Enforcement Team initiated an investigation in June after receiving information and complaints from patients about a local physician. The law enforcement group is a multi-jurisdictional drug task force headed by the Sheriff’s Office in partnership with 13 local police departments.

The investigation included officers being seen by Amin.

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On three separate occasions, police said, Amin failed to properly examine the investigators and then prescribed controlled substances, Schedule 1, 2 and 3, with no medical necessity, the sheriff’s office said.

These controlled narcotics were prescribed to investigators for other than legitimate and professionally recognized therapeutic or scientific purposes, said law enforcement officials.

The investigation was continued and on Monday, Oct. 28, search warrants were executed at Healing Hands Urgent Care at 2157 Orchard Lake Road in Sylvan Lake. Officials seized two Dell computer towers, two Apple computer towers, two Apple iPads, office records and a cash receipt book